Supio was started by two long time friends, Jerry Zhou and Kyle Lam. Supio’s startup journey started in a Starbucks with a simple premise. “We wrote down all the problems that pissed us off,” said Supio CEO Jerry Zhou, reflecting on the coffee shop meeting with his childhood friend Kyle Lam. “I sat in some type of startup event, and they were just like, ‘find what makes you upset and go fix it.’ And I was like, that’s great. Let’s go and do that.” Four years later, Zhou and Lam are leading a fast-growing Seattle startup using AI to help lawyers wade through mounds of documents. Zhou and Lam initially explored legal tech broadly, inspired by helping immigrant family members sort through legal processes. The Garfield High School grads also had experience working at Microsoft on productivity software. The founders ultimately landed on a specific target market: personal injury and mass tort plaintiff law, which involves firms that represent many clients filing similar claims. These cases involve large volumes of documents (medical records, billing data, police reports, etc.) that can be hard for general AI to parse but ripe for domain-specific AI. Supio’s software ingests case documents and provides insights that draw connections traditionally requiring hours of human work. It can understand key elements of a case and help lawyers generate chronologies, ledgers, and draft materials.